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Source: Xavier will host Seton Hall at the Cintas Center on Saturday, December 23rd. So in December, the Pirates will host UConn Dec 20th and then travel to Xavier for Big East play. So much for the holiday cheer!
 
Sounds like learned a lot from KW!
But…Hard to argue with.

Is UConn/Danny watering to get the “Nova” treatment?

I guess it makes sense to Geno your best Teams get in position so be very successful…But they all know that this is a game that we play UConn tough. So…towards that prior goal, why not schedule them when maybe we can take some of that home court advantage away
 
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It’s completely counterproductive and unfair to all of the conference members to schedule marquee conference games during winter break, whether that goes for us or Xavier which hosts two days before Christmas. I don’t understand why they don’t start the conference schedule the first two weeks in December then take a break until the first week of January, with games taking place over the holidays featuring OOC or neutral site games (like Mizzou, St. Peter’s, etc).
 
It’s completely counterproductive and unfair to all of the conference members to schedule marquee conference games during winter break, whether that goes for us or Xavier which hosts two days before Christmas. I don’t understand why they don’t start the conference schedule the first two weeks in December then take a break until the first week of January, with games taking place over the holidays featuring OOC or neutral site games (like Mizzou, St. Peter’s, etc).
TV drives scheduling to a large degree
 
It’s completely counterproductive and unfair to all of the conference members to schedule marquee conference games during winter break, whether that goes for us or Xavier which hosts two days before Christmas. I don’t understand why they don’t start the conference schedule the first two weeks in December then take a break until the first week of January, with games taking place over the holidays featuring OOC or neutral site games (like Mizzou, St. Peter’s, etc).
In fairness, I would wager that the conference doesn't view this as a marquee conference game. Someone has to play a game in this type of slot and frankly we are predicted to be a bottom third conference team.
 
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It’s completely counterproductive and unfair to all of the conference members to schedule marquee conference games during winter break, whether that goes for us or Xavier which hosts two days before Christmas. I don’t understand why they don’t start the conference schedule the first two weeks in December then take a break until the first week of January, with games taking place over the holidays featuring OOC or neutral site games (like Mizzou, St. Peter’s, etc).

UConn @ Seton Hall and Seton Hall @ Xavier are not marquee conference games this season.
 
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It’s completely counterproductive and unfair to all of the conference members to schedule marquee conference games during winter break, whether that goes for us or Xavier which hosts two days before Christmas. I don’t understand why they don’t start the conference schedule the first two weeks in December then take a break until the first week of January, with games taking place over the holidays featuring OOC or neutral site games (like Mizzou, St. Peter’s, etc).
I'm not sure it's quite that simple.

For starters, the Big East has its arrangement with the Big 12 which is scheduled for that time frame. There are also some relatively high profile non-conference games such as the Jimmy V Classic and the Never Forget Classic that normally take place in that window. Add in some traditional non-conference matchups such as SHU-RU and Xavier vs Cincinnati.

The point is, even presuming our media partners would be on-board, there is a fair amount of coordination that would have to happen with other conferences to accommodate what would be a fairly significant shift in scheduling.
 
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